Pole-cap for wagons.



No. 686,762. Patented Nov. I9, 19m.

E. c. RASSEL.

POLE CAP FOB WAGDNS.

(Application filed Sept. 20. 1901. (No Model.)

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EDWARD O. RASSEL, OF WEST TOLEDO, OHIO.

POLE-CAP FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,762, dated November 19, 1901.

Application filed September 20, 1901. Serial No. 75,848. (No model.)

To coZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD (J. RASSEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pole-Caps for Wagons; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Farm-wagons and other heavy wagons are usually manufactured with tongues or poles of uniform length, and for this reason the straps and harness of horses of different sizes when hitched to such a wagon must frequently be lengthened or shortened in order to connect with the neck-yoke at the forward end of the pole and with the doubletrees at the rear end of the pole, and it rarely hap pens that two different teams can be attached to the same pole without some change in the adjustment of the neck-yoke straps and other parts of the harness. It frequently happens that owing to the distance between the buckleholes in the straps the adjustment is not close enough to be satisfactory.

My invention relates to and its object is to provide means for overcoming the objections and difficulties here referred to, and more particularly to provide a wagon-pole with a cap and ring by means of which a quick adjustment of the neck-yoke attachment may be obtained to suit the size of any horse without necessitating any change in the adjustment of any part of the harness. I attain these objects by means of the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective side view of the front end of a wagon-pole provided with my device; Fig. 2, a front end elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a perspective view of a modified form of the ring hereinafter referred to, and Fig. 4 a central longitudinal sectional elevation of the ring illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Like numerals of reference indicate like partsthroughout the drawings.

In the drawings, 1 is a wagon pole or tonguea 2 is a pole-cap, which consists of heavy straps of iron firmly secured to and which cover, longitudinally, the top and bottom of the end of the pole. At their outer extremities the upper and lower straps are connected by a forwardly-projecting loop or eye 3. The upper and lower straps are provided with coarse spirally-inclined screw-thread parts 2 preferably double, which if extended at the sides of the pole would be continuous from one end of the straps to the other, thus forming a double-threaded screw.

4 is a broad ring or band grooved interiorly to take the mutilated threads 2 upon the straps 2. The ring is provided with two loops or eyes 5, to which the neck-yoke chains or straps may be secured.

Instead of the broad interiorly-screw-threaded band 4 a round iron rod may be twisted to conform to the spaces between the threads 2, as shown in Fig. 3, and this rod so twisted may at each extremity be formed into an eye, as shown, which will correspond with and serve the same purpose as the eyes 5. (Illustrated in Fig. 2.)

The operation of my device is as follows: The pole and straps being securely and permanently assembled in fixed relation, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the ring 4 or its equivalent part (illustrated in Fig. 3) is screwed onto the mutilated threads of the upper and lower straps any desired distance. For large horses the ring will be placed near the forward end of the pole, and for small horses the ring will be screwed back to the rear ends of the straps. This can of course be accomplished quickly, and by this means adjustment of any part of the harness will be dispensed'with.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-=- A wagon-pole cap comprising a wagon-pole, upper and lower straps for the forward extremity of said pole, coincident mutilated screw threads upon said upper and lower straps, a ring adapted to engage said muti-. lated threads and to be screwed along the straps, and eyes upon said ring.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD G. RASSEL.

Witnesses:

F. M. Dotson, L. E. BROWN. 

